How to use casually in a sentence
40 example sentences · adverb
Casually means in a casual manner. Example: “Their kiss started casually, but it slowly turned romantic.”
Examples of casually by meaning
adverbIn a casual manner.
- He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!
- He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually.1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 10
More sentences with casually
- Their kiss started casually, but it slowly turned romantic.From the entry romantic
- He casually prescribed throat paint and some antibiotic drugs.From the entry throat paint
- She inserted the lyrics of “Never Gonna Give You Up” into her speech so casually that most listeners didn’t even realize they’d been rickrolled.From the entry rickroll
- As I paged down through the year-old comments, I came to one young man's posting, in which he casually mentioned that he was looking for a boyfriend.From the entry page down
- Leave it to D to casually build in skills that could defeat a god.2022, Okina Baba, translated by Jenny McKeon, So I’m a Spider, So What?, volume 15, New York, N.Y.: Yen Press, →ISBN. From the entry cash money
- I like how the Kia casually reverses and leaves the chat.2021 April 1, “Float like an idiot, sting like a Kia”, in Reddit, r/IdiotsInCars, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2024. From the entry leave the chat
- It’s when an animal’s tongue casually pokes out of their mouth and stays there.2018 March 17, Ellen Scott, “Why cats leave their tongues hanging out”, in The Metro. From the entry blep
- Simmons casually leaned back as if he was going to let the throw go to third.2017, Michael Clair, “Andrelton Simmons used a great deke and some great throws to fool the Astros out of an inning”, in Cut 4. From the entry deke
- 'Probably some rich arty-farty built it for his kids,' said Barney casually.2015, Jen Storer, The Fourteenth Summer of Angus Jack. From the entry arty-farty
- Rathe wasn't the sort to speak of lemanry, not casually, not without meaning it.2014, Melissa Scott, Fairs' Point: A Novel of Astreiant, page 176. From the entry lemanry
- His red hair and freckled face lent him a casually geeksome appearance, meaning Henrietta didn't feel threatened.2013, Oliver Neale, Electronic Sue, page 345. From the entry geeksome
- Only you could give a one-of-a-kind ring to a female Mafioso, so casually.”2010, Jess Phillips, Roxy’s Sequel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry mafioso
- Someone standing by the entrance had casually asked, "Waz up, Tiny, waz up, Marquis?"2010, Dick Lehr, The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide, page 108. From the entry waz up
- And then he left as casually as he had arrived, leaving us behind, unkidnapped and confused.2008, Catja Orford, Tracking Bubu. From the entry unkidnapped
- I removed my jacket and threw it casually over the back of the settee.2007, Nick Holland, The Girl on the Bus, page 117. From the entry casual
- Brig ooched his chair next to mine, then casually wrapped his arm around my shoulders.2005 April, Flo Fitzpatrick, chapter 27, in Hot Stuff, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry ooch
- He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness.2004, Carla Neggers, White Hot, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry scraggliness
- So grown, thirteen and grownish, casually out for a stroll at three a.m.2000, Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones are Not My Child, page 563. From the entry grownish
- Why, time was when I could casually knock off a dozen haresses in a day!1967, Penthouse, volume 3, London; New York, N.Y.: Penthouse Publications Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67. From the entry haress
- After speaking a few casual words, he would pass as casually to the next thing.1948, Esmond Quinterley, My Airman Days, Fortune Press, page 168. From the entry sadisticness
- An actor of the versatile order is called, casually, even contemptuously, a “character” actor.c. 1929–1930, Harry Alan Potamkin, “A Diet of Stars”, in Lewis Jacobs, editor, The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Alan…. From the entry acceptable
- Highland had fallen into the habit of casually bedearing Mary when there were people about.1922, Hearst's international. From the entry bedear
- What most rankles me about the term is how casually it is being applied to schools—temples of learning—and especially to children.2022 June 14, John McWhorter, “Republicans Want to ‘Harden’ Schools. That’s an Awful Euphemism.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry rankle
- Civil war is now casually discussed on cable TV shows in between ads for haemorrhoid creams and car insurance.2022 September 6, Arwa Mahdawi, “No doomsday bunker, not a single gun – if the US really is heading for civil war, I’m stuffed”, in The…. From the entry civil war
- He made the decision mid-March to quaranteam with a woman he had been casually dating for two months, named Heff.2020 July 31, Erin Sagen, “Building a ‘Quaranteam’ is Helping People Deal With the Pandemic”, in Shondaland, archived from the original on…. From the entry quaranteam
- A while back I was casually involved with a guy.2018, Cheyenne Porcher, “Snow Bunnies Aren’t a Type and Neither Am I”, in Washington Square News. From the entry snow bunny
- As I'm walking through the festival entrance, a man casually vomits before continuing on, unfazed. ¶ Twenty-year-old me thinks, "Dope.2015 June 10, Farley Katz, “Music Festivals in Your Thirties”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry faded
- One evening in the autumn of my freshman year, my appetite casually drifted toward the pleasant thought of an Italian beef.2013, Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food, page 24. From the entry Italian beef
- “No lah,” she had said, almost casually to his proposal.2011, Robert Yeo, The Adventures of Holden Heng, Epigram Books, →ISBN. From the entry lah
- The neighbour, almost casually, as a way of making conversation, said: “You’ll miss her when she's gone, I'd say.”2009, Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn, New York: Scribner, published 2015, page 30. From the entry make conversation
- She casually told him it meant 'dreamer'.2006, Michelle Bowers, Outstanding Justice. From the entry liefling
- Behind it was a typically bearded, casually dressed Greenpeace type.1998, Robert I. Eaton, Thrust in Your Sickle But Watch Your Fingers, page 60. From the entry Greenpeace
- He casually flipped the page and found a slice of angel’s food cake sitting in a puddle of raspberry sauce.1998, Anthony Bruno, Double Espresso, Forge, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry angel's food cake
- It astounds me, and scares me, to see otherwise levelheaded ad people spend such big bucks so casually.1997, Communication Arts, numbers 270-272, page 40. From the entry candy store problem
- If not, was it casually discovered by the patient or by a physician in the course of an examination?1987, Hiram C. Polk, H. Harlan Stone, Bernard Gardner, Basic Surgery, page 409. From the entry iatropic
- A man trying to wear suitpants casually will always look as if he just took his jacket and tie off.1968 02, Men's Wear. From the entry suitjacket
- Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11. From the entry garden
- I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear.2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times. From the entry buggy
Meaning of casually
- adverb In a casual manner.
Questions about casually in a sentence
- How do you use casually in a sentence?
- Casually is used as an adverb. For example: “Their kiss started casually, but it slowly turned romantic.”
- What is a short sentence with casually?
- “She casually told him it meant 'dreamer'.”
- What does casually mean?
- Casually means in a casual manner.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: casually (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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